Anna and the Apocalypse (2017) - Soundtrack Collection

Anna and the Apocalypse was one of the movies released in 2017 that I most wanted to see on the big screen, but was unable to. Turned out it had a limited release, perhaps all of a week, at most, and I was busy with other things at that time. So I had to wait with some irked impatience for the film to become available on VOD.

That means I had expectations for Anna and the Apocalypse, which can be problematic thing. You go in expecting, or hoping, for a certain kind of movie, only to see something that is not that movie. Sometimes this is a pleasant surprise, sometimes it is not. With Anna and the Apocalypse it was the former, rather than the latter. For which I am grateful.

The ad campaign for Anna and the Apocalypse played up its zany musical-comedy aspects, making it look much more similar to the iconic British zombie-comedy Shaun of the Dead than it turned out being. Anna is a tad darker that Shaun.

While Shaun made references and in-jokes to Romero's zombie films, Anna seemed to be capturing their pessimistic tone and bitter irony. While Shaun looked and felt like a loving homage to Romero's zombie films, Anna looked and felt like the kind of zombie-comedy-musical that Romero himself would have made.

Perhaps I should put it this way, Shaun of the Dead has a Hollywood Ending, while Anna and the Apocalypse does not...